ZIWU
About
In her recent work, London-based artist ZIWU explores Flux, a multi-channel installation that treats images not as representations but as systems. The piece investigates how visual culture is shaped by technology, politics, and data—highlighting not only what we see, but also how and why we see it. Employing algorithmic agents, data-driven avatars, and fragmented narratives, Flux unfolds in loops rather than linear stories. It draws on historical datasets to generate a continuous process of repetition, pressure, and reconfiguration.
The work resists clarity and closure. Instead, it deliberately embraces complexity, fragmentation, and ambivalence as artistic strategies. Viewers are not positioned outside the system but embedded within it, tracked and integrated. Surveillance here is not merely a subject of critique, but a lens: a means of examining how control, visibility, and identity are constructed in the contemporary world.
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